Name: Lobster Salad
Ingredients: three leaves together in the form of a nest; one teaspoont'nl of mustard; one teaspoont'nl of salt; salt; pepper; lemon juice; mustard

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Lobster Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the lobster into dice; season with salt, pepper and lemon juice. the same as chicken; let stand an hour; separate and wash carefully the Leaves from a crisp head of lettuce; let stand in ice water for half an hour; at serving time shake (vvr from water; arrange two or three leaves together in the form of a nest, and arrange the nests on a large dish or individual dishes ; season the mayonnaise to taste wit h a mixture of one teaspoont'nl of mustard, one teaspoont'nl of salt and a fourth of a teaspoont'nl of mixed pepper; mix one-half the dressing with the lobster; put a tablespoonfnl into each shell and a teaspoon- ful of dressing on top.
Another way of serving Lobster salad is to tear the lettuce into small pieces and mix with the lobster, using one-third as much lettuce as Lobster, garnishing the dish with the whole leaves.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

21Calories

1 gProtein

0 gFat

6 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Tracy, Suzanne. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,430 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mustard + lemontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,816 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).